The Devil's Dictionary: Aristocracy

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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ARISTOCRACY

-n.

Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

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